Solaris Internationalization Guide For Developers

Locales in the Base Installation

The installation window in the base Solaris 7 product offers several English language locales. To use 8-bit characters, install one of the en_XX options, as shown in Table 2-7. The locale used in the installation becomes the default system locale.

Table 2-7 Locales Offered at Installation

Locale Name  

Language/Territory 

Codeset 

C

U.S. English 

7-bit 

en_AU

Australian English 

8-bit 

en_CA

Canadian English 

8-bit 

en_UK

UK English 

8-bit 

en_US

U.S. English 

8-bit